tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post5578668232871616512..comments2024-03-18T22:03:28.458-07:00Comments on Monitor on Massacre Marketing: Syria: Sukhna Massacre, July, 2013Caustic Logichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-36751187631250997572015-07-10T00:41:13.159-07:002015-07-10T00:41:13.159-07:00Bearded and wearing bright blue bandanas, the Isla...Bearded and wearing bright blue bandanas, the Islamic State group's "special forces" unit gathered around their commander just before they attacked the central Syrian town of al-Sukhna. "Victory or martyrdom," they screamed, pledging their allegiance to God and vowing never to retreat.<br /><br />The IS calls them "Inghemasiyoun," Arabic for "those who immerse themselves." <br />The elite shock troops are possibly the deadliest weapon in the extremist group's arsenal: Fanatical and disciplined, they infiltrate their targets, unleash mayhem and fight to the death, wearing explosives belts to blow themselves up among their opponents if they face defeat. They are credited with many of the group's stunning battlefield successes — including the capture of al-Sukhna in May after the scene shown in an online video released by the group.<br /><br />Even the group's atrocities are in part a tactic, aimed at terrorizing its enemies and depicting itself as an unstoppable juggernaut. <br /><br />In June 2014, the group boasted of killing hundreds of Shiites in Iraq's security forces, issuing photos of the massacre. It regularly beheads captured soldiers, releasing videos of the killings online. It is increasing the shock value: Recent videos showed it lowering captives in a cage into a pool to drown and blowing off the heads of others with explosive wire around their necks. <br /><br />The number of IS fighters in Iraq and Syria is estimated between 30,000 to 60,000, according to the Iraqi officers. Former army officers of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have helped the group organize its fighters, a diverse mix from Europe, the United States and Arab and Central Asian nations. Veteran jihadis with combat experience in Afghanistan, Chechnya or Somalia have also brought valuable experience, both in planning and as role models to younger fighters. <br /><br />The group's tactics carried it to an overwhelming sweep of northern and western Iraq a year ago, capturing Mosul, Iraq's second-biggest city. Shortly thereafter, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" spanning its territory in Iraq and Syria.<br /><br />In May, it captured Ramadi, capital of Iraq's vast western Anbar province, in a humiliation for Iraqi forces. In Syria, it seized the central city of Palmyra.<br /><br />The elite shock troops were crucial in the capture of Ramadi. First came a wave of more than a dozen suicide bombings that hammered the military's positions in the city, then the fighters moved in during a sandstorm. Iraqi troops crumbled and fled as a larger IS force marched in.<br />http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8dccf5044f984891bf8ebcacc874fc9d/secret-success-shock-troops-who-fight-death<br /><br />Around the same time, they also overran a central Syrian town, al-Sukhna. In an online video released by the group, the elite fighters are shown pumping themselves up for the attack. "Victory or martyrdom," the fighters, wearing blue bandanas, scream in a circle around their commander, pledging their allegiance to God and vowing never to retreat.<br />http://news.yahoo.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-44910486202731374012015-07-08T01:34:21.556-07:002015-07-08T01:34:21.556-07:00Adra," 13 Dec 2013
Timed to coincide with the...Adra," 13 Dec 2013<br />Timed to coincide with the beginning of a new assault on Aleppo by helicopters<br /><br /><br /><br />18 May 2015 <br />Mr. Roth then published a second photograph, of Alep this time, <br />showing the ravages caused by the Syrian Arab Army.<br /><br /> But O dear ! ... Moon of Alabama revealed that although this photograph was in fact taken by the AFP in Alep, it did not show the « rebel » zone (meaning the zone conquered by the Turks and held by jihadistes). <br /><br />In fact, it showed the destruction perpetrated by the « moderate rebels » (sic) in Hamadiyeh, the Christian quarter, still faithful to the Republic. <br />http://www.voltairenet.org/article187684.html<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-90945136366006042552015-07-01T17:21:10.125-07:002015-07-01T17:21:10.125-07:00Wed May 30, 2012
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2...Wed May 30, 2012 <br /><br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/30/1095933/-Fake-Houla-Massacre-Photo-Was-the-BBC-set-up<br />Fake Houla Massacre Photo: Was the BBC set up? <br /><br />The fake image was exposed and taken down the same day, in fact it was up for only 90 minutes, but that hasn't stopped various "Friends of Assad" from using it to imply that events in Syria are a creation of the western media. From Alex Jones' InfoWars we get Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria <br />The photo had actually been taken by Marco di Lauro in Iraq in 2003 and is featured on his website. According the Telegraph: <br />…....<br /><br />Adra," 13 Dec 2013<br />Timed to coincide with the beginning of a new assault on Aleppo by helicopters carrying barrel bombs, an assault that has so far cost more than four hundred lives, the world of pro-Assad media began chortling about an ugly new massacre of civilians, some of who had their heads cut off, that had just been carried out by the terrorist opposition in Adra, Syria. Although the BBC News reported that "An attack by Islamist rebels has left at least <br /><br />10 people dead over the past two days in the Syrian town of Adra," 13 Dec 2013 the pro-Assad, Russian state funded, RT reported a much bigger story: Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians... http://rt.com/news/syria-adra-civilian-execution-289/<br /><br />15.12.2013 19:18 <br />Most of the photo comparisons below were documented earlier at @lopforum Syria Statistics & Collated Articles in Alleged Adra Massacre Collated Media. I made a few additions or substitution where I found better material. Mainly I contributed the formating and the text.<br /><br />An Essay on uruknet.info titled Questions about the evidence of the alleged Adra Massacre asks some good ones: <br /><br /><br />http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m103512<br /><br />What happened<br />Islamic Front entered the town of Adra on December 11th<br /><br />"Iran’s Al-Alam TV, supporting the Syrian regime’s declarations, is claiming that insurgents killed scores of civilians in the fight for control of Adra, on the Damascus-to-Homs highway northeast of the capital.<br /><br />However, an observer is noting on social media that at least one of the images (0:18 in the video) is actually from Homs in April 2012. Other images (1:15-1:20) were posted on a pro-regime blog in May 2012."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com